[issue6396] No conversion specifier in the string, no __getitem__ method in the right hand value

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

No, it's not logical that there should be an exception. The result looks
right to me.

You are incorrectly assuming that it would always invoke __getitem__ in
this case, which is not true:

py> "a string with a single placeholder: %s" % c
'a string with a single placeholder: <__main__.AClass object at 0xb7d3b1ec>'

So whether it requires c to be a dictionary depends on whether there are
any %(foo)s conversions in the string. With no conversion specifiers,
the values passed to % are irrelevant.

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nosy: +loewis
resolution:  -> invalid
status: open -> closed

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